Franz Lamprecht (conductor)
Franz Wilhelm Lamprecht (* 1951 in Düsseldorf ) is a German choir director and conductor .
Life
Lamprecht studied in the Kapellmeister class at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and founded his first choir during his training. He passed the exam "with distinction". Regular concert tours and guest conductor and his choirs in the following years, among other things, to London , Brussels , Rome , Salzburg , Paris , Israel , Bulgaria , Poland , Romania , Hungary , Czech Republic and in the Slovak Republic , the United States and to Mexico . He recorded rare works by Charles Gounod , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Max Bruch for Electrecord.
Choirs and orchestras
Lamprecht leads several choirs in the Düsseldorf region , which often perform together with two Romanian orchestras at concerts and music festivals in Germany and abroad.
Oratorios Choir Hilden
As the first choir, Lamprecht founded the Hilden Oratorio Choir in 1974, which currently has around 105 singers. Works such as Beethoven's 9th Symphony , Mozart's Requiem , Handel's Messiah and Orff's Carmina Burana soon became part of the standard repertoire.
Choir of the State Government of Düsseldorf
In 1977 he founded the choir of the state government of Düsseldorf , which comprises around 80 singers. The repertoire includes sacred and secular choral music, especially masses and oratorios , but also excerpts from operas and operettas.
Chamber choir Düsseldorf-Urdenbach
In 1987 Lamprecht founded a new choir in the south of Düsseldorf with around 65 singers. Together with the other choirs, sacred and secular choral works are performed in concert halls such as the Tonhalle Düsseldorf or the historic town hall in Wuppertal , in churches such as the Neviges pilgrimage cathedral and even in the Balver cave .
Romanian State Philharmonic "Dinu Lipatti" Satu Mare
The orchestra and its 65 musicians give around 80 concerts each year. Franz Lamprecht was "Principal Guest Conductor" from 1993 to 1998 and since 1999 he has been chief conductor of the Romanian State Philharmonic "Dinu Lipatti" Satu Mare . On January 1, 2001 he was appointed music director of Satu Mare by the city and district parliament.
Târgu Mureș Philharmonic Orchestra
The prehistory of the orchestra began in 1823 when the first symphony orchestra was established in Neumarkt am Mieresch in Transylvania , which at that time was still made up of amateurs and semi-professionals. Famous personalities made guest appearances in Târgu Mureș: Pablo Casals , Béla Bartók , Jan Kubelík , Joseph Szigeti , George Enescu, etc. In 1950 the ensemble became a state orchestra with its current name. Since the autumn of 1991 the orchestra has made regular guest appearances in the Rhineland under the direction of Lamprecht, who has meanwhile become “Principal Guest Conductor”.
Concerts and festivals
“Ars musica” in Düsseldorf and Wuppertal
In the Tonhalle Düsseldorf , the state government's choir has been organizing the “ars musica” concert series under the direction of Franz Lamprecht with light classical music, but also major sacred works and opera choirs.
The Wuppertal Symphonic Choir organizes a series of concerts of the same name in the historic town hall of Wuppertal.
For organizational reasons, these concerts have now been taken over by the Klassik Konzert Gesellschaft.
In addition to the events in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and the historic town hall in Wuppertal , there are regular concerts in the town hall in Hilden and in the Mariendom in Neviges .
Music festivals in Düsseldorf, Nordkirchen, Merode
Since 1994 the Klassik Konzert Gesellschaft has been organizing music festivals as open-air concerts with classical music, park illumination, colored water features and synchronous musical fireworks, until 2015 at the Spiegelweiher of Benrath Castle , since 1999 also at the moated castle Nordkirchen and in 2015 also at the moated castle Merode (Langerwehe) .
New from 2017 are the pre-Christmas chamber concerts with young up-and-coming artists in the "Schlösschen" of the district government in Düsseldorf.
Awards
In 1998 he was made an honorary citizen of Tîrgu Mureș because of his many years of service to the German-Romanian cultural exchange , and in October 2004 he was made an honorary citizen of Satu Mare .
In recognition of his music care work and his commitment to the German-Romanian cultural exchange, Franz Lamprecht received the Federal Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on April 30, 2004 .
Web links
- Classical concert society
- Oratorios Choir Hilden
- Choir of the State Government of Düsseldorf eV
- Chamber choir Düsseldorf-Urdenbach
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical information about Franz Lamprecht
- ↑ Concert tours and CDs
- ^ Oratorios Choir Hilden since 1974
- ^ Choir of the state government since 1977
- ^ Chamber choir Düsseldorf-Urdenbach since 1987
- ↑ Chief conductor since 1999 ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ First guest conductor since 1991 ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ “ars musica” for over 25 years ( memento of the original from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Honorary citizen of Târgu Mureș and Satu Mare
- ↑ Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamprecht, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lamprecht, Franz Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German choir director and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |